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Jenny Barker

Jenny was called to the Bar in 2005. Following pupillage at the leading criminal set 3 Raymond Buildings, she joined the Business Crime team at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP, where she currently practises as Of Counsel. Jenny has considerable experience in acting for both individual and corporate clients in a broad range of criminal proceedings from complex fraud and corruption through to more general crime, as well as both prosecuting and defending private prosecutions. She has particular expertise in extradition and mutual legal assistance, and is a committee member of the Extradition Lawyers’ Association, in addition to being a member of a number of other professional organisations.

Sally Bevan

Sally was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1982. After pupillage she worked as a lawyer in the music industry and subsequently moved into the IP and IT sector. Sally now runs a legal consultancy, The Legal Side, specialising in advising commercial software companies. She is a member of the Hall Committee of the Middle Temple and is passionate about making the bar establishment more outward looking and sympathetic to the needs of those many barristers who as a result of career choices are now called non registered barristers.

Ian Brookes-Howells

Ian was called to the Bar in 1989 and completed pupillages at East Anglian Chambers and did a unique in-house Commercial Pupillage with the Legal Advisor at GEC Plessey Telecoms before embarking on his career as an in-house counsel. He is a senior commercial counsel who works for multinational corporations on an interim and consultancy basis. Ian specialises in commercial contracts for IT, outsourcing and fintech services. Ian focuses on commercial transactions and contracts in the Banking, financial services, energy, telecommunications and IT service sectors. Prior to this Ian was a senior counsel for over 15 years at BT Group plc. He is also passionate about diversity and equality, and was the founder of BT’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employee network. Ian is a Rotarian, and enjoys doing charity fundraising and community work. He lives with his husband David in Royal Leamington Spa and they enjoy their holiday cottage in mid-Wales, railways, travel and history.

Simon Broomfield

Simon was called to the Bar in 2002. He is currently Head of Group Governance at Brooks Macdonald Group plc with overall responsibility for compliance, risk and legal. Simon is also a director of Levitas Investment Management Services Limited and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.

Alexandria Carr

Alexandria was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1997 and joined the Government Legal Service (“GLS”) in 1999. She had a variety of postings in the GLS including the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, the Ministry of Defence and finally HM Treasury where she was the lead legal adviser on EU financial services strategy with a specific focus on the EU’s response to the financial crisis, particularly the new EU financial services supervisory architecture.

She left the GLS in 2012 to join Mayer Brown, although she was immediately seconded to HM Treasury to serve as legal advisor to a project team considering recent and projected developments in the Eurozone, including proposals for an EU banking union. She returned to Mayer Brown in September 2012 where she practices in London as Of Counsel with the Financial Services, Regulatory & Enforcement group. Alexandria provides regulatory advice on transactional matters and advises on discrete regulatory projects. She monitors and provides training on the major regulatory developments that impact her clients. She is regularly quoted in the media, both in the press and on broadcasts.

Alexandria had been an active Committee member since 2013. She is an ex officio member of the Bar Council and vice chair of the EU Law Committee. She believes strongly in “one bar” and seeks actively to integrate the employed and independent bar.

Hussain Khan

Hussain was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and is qualified as a solicitor. He has worked at several international organisations and was practising for several years with the dispute resolution team at a US law firm in the City before becoming a consultant for companies, especially in the mining, oil & gas and financial services sectors.

Lorinda Long

Lorinda is a very experienced financial services specialist who heads up the Cash Equities Legal Team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She has provided consultancy services to various organisations including British Gas, Barclays and MetLife. Lorinda has worked for a number of leading financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, HBOS and Lloyds as a transactional lawyer, Head of Legal and General Counsel. She is currently Treasurer of the Bar Council and will continue in this role during 2018.

Lucinda Orr

Lucinda is an employed barrister working in a specialist Litigation firm, Enyo Law LLP, in the City of London. Enyo Law covers high value, big ticket litigation – the so-called “Super cases”. Lucinda trained as a barrister in one of the top Shipping Chambers and subsequently practised for a number of years in the Litigation departments of US firms, Skadden Arps and Quinn Emanuel.

A member of the Bar Council of England and Wales since 2008, she sits on the General Management Committee, the Bar Conference Organising Board, Bar Pro Bono and Members Services Boards. She is also elected to Gray’s Inn Barristers Committee.

She was the Chairman of BACFI from 2012 – 2015 and is the Chair of the Employed Bar Committee of the Bar Council in 2017.

Stephen Potts

Formerly a student member in the 1990s, Stephen rejoined BACFI in 2007. Since call in 1997 he has practised in-house in the area of banking and finance within, both, regulated financial institutions and non-FI corporate environments.

Richard Ryan

Richard is a barrister currently employed by Willis, a global insurance broker. Richard deals with complex claims and strategic relationships that primarily relate to financial and executive risks. Risks include Directors & Officers, Professional Indemnity, M&A, and Cyber. Richard is also involved in providing insurance and risk advice to large global contractors. Richard is also an associate tenant of Hardwicke Chambers, where he practiced in Construction & Engineering, Insolvency, Insurance and Professional Negligence. Richard is a member of a number of professional bodies and the Parachute Regiment Reserve.

Christiane Valansot

Christiane was called in 1989. After pupillage, Christiane joined City solicitors, then worked as in-house counsel in investment banking and latterly as general counsel for a trade association for asset managers thus gaining over 20 years’ experience as an in-house practitioner in financial services. Christiane is now an independent consultant. She is a long standing BACFI member and former BACFI chairman. Christiane is also an employed bar advocacy and ethics trainer at Middle Temple.

Grant Warnsby

Grant is an employed barrister working in the legal function of BP. Working within the Upstream he was until recently was based at the Rumaila oil field in Basra, Iraq. Prior to that his role included supporting BP’s 2010 disposal program as well as the regulatory compliance work. Grant also spent several years in Moscow both inside and outside of the TNK-BP joint venture. Called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1997, he also qualified as a Chartered Accountant while working on International Tax matters with Coopers & Lybrand (latterly PwC).